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we're learning that is this is that job a job that are to my how i see it and why my job because i tried to do it exactly a day. by the name of the uninsured and i wore the attitude that you're. 2 you're watching t w news asia coming up the case against myanmar the un's top court begins hearing genocide charges over the mass killing of a hinge of muslims this man hours on use on sushi set to defend her country we'll hear from refugees who say she betrayed them. and protests across india as a controversial citizenship bill makes its way through parliament we'll get reaction from delhi. plus the problem of teen pregnancies in the philippines we'll hear why officials there want it declared
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a national emergency. i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start with the united nations at the hague and the international court of justice where myanmar's leader on sun suu kyi will defend her country against charges of genocide brought by the african state of the gambia myanmar's military had run a deadly campaign in 2017 that led to the exodus of more than 700000 range refugees now the nobel peace prize recipient and long time human rights advocate will defend what many say is indefensible she will speak tomorrow this is day one of what's expected to be 3 days of testimony to all of the gumby us. is that you tell me an ma to stop these senseless
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killing to stop these acts of barbarity and brutality that have shocked and continue to shock our collective conscience to stop this genocide of its own people cynics say one motivation front on suchi is appearance she was not obligated to personally appear at the hague is next year's elections back home in the past few days her supporters have held large rallies medicine citizen see her as a defender of the embattled country on the global stage but ask any of the ranger refugees who survived the ordeal and they will paint a very different picture. in the refugee camps of cox's bizarre a woman who once represented hope is now a pariah the consensus here on sun suchi must answer for what happened to the
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rohingya. you will hear of our how was it wasn't it we pray to a law that we will get justice. she is not a good person we once prayed sincerely to god for her who supported her when she came to power she did no good for us she's a liar we hate her she did nothing for us she is responsible for the genocide she talks to does she really does it. from one doorstep to the next march testimonies of ruthless violence at the hands of myanmar's military. the other is another one of the 2 soldiers help me down while one of them rape me in front of my mother and 4 children. by searching our i show what i did not come with you my daughter was crying so they hit her on the head with a weapon out of there go to the time when i was alone hunger. i lost 8 of my sons and grandsons they were all but shot by the military. really thinking.
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the military burnt our homes relative we were a family of 18 and they killed 12 by burning them alive. there were more than 2000 people in our village and all their homes were burned to monitor. on sun suci has long defended me on mars 27000 crackdown on their hinge are saying a target militants and she'll do so again at the hague. and majority myanmar the scrutiny of the un's top court has stoked indignation. over there not just accusing one person and me and maher they're accusing the whole country we actually believe everything that unsung suchi does. a decision from the hague over me and marse treatment of the ranger could take years a long and uncertain week for justice for people that have already lost so much.
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protests have erupted across india after the lower house of parliament overwhelmingly passed a controversial citizenship amendment bill also known as cab the proposed legislation makes it easier for religious minorities to obtain indian nationality but it explicitly excludes muslims opponents of the bill say it violates india's secular constitutions other fears an influx of unwanted asylum seekers and northeastern state protesters blocked roads as part of any lever. an hour shutdown there were also rallies in the capital of delhi t w was there to get some reactions. to believe and get the maximum number of influx from the neighboring countries it will make a drastic geographical demographic linguistic change the communal citizenship government board speaks seeing that it wants to see if to prosecute the same
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proportion my answer to why they aren't. just about the how to partition on the just 947 and the stunning 200-1000 via north dakota on another body should we stand with the muslim community of this country and our correspondent in the wall has more on where this citizenship bill is now headed. i thought that a recount didn't do a damn bit of interbred when they're behind me here in florida a little hard to imagine i'm going to see if it been found that i burst out of boredom with me but in the wrong that the wrong thing for the voter to migron from there will be any good go to heaven demography or better yet in addition that us the rules that are challenging the fact that as boom boom gone for the service on the basis of religion and wars against the secular principle this country was founded on analysts are already saying that if this will continue the sales will
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bottom line we will have to look to the green court of india to ensure that india secular fabric is preserved. in the philippines the government agency on population and development says the country is facing what it calls a national emergency when it comes to teen pregnancy some 1200000 children have had children over the past decade and it happens in part because of limited access to sex education and family planning here's on a santos with more. marilyn miss you know expends most of her afternoons with her girlfriends and their toddlers all 3 are teen mothers marilyn has just turned 20 and is soon having another baby. this is stage i 1st got pregnant when i was 13 i gave birth at 14 then i broke up with my boyfriend i got pregnant with another boyfriend but i gave birth at home and the baby died after
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a year i got pregnant again but unfortunately miscarried did 5 months now i'm pregnant for the 4th time. but. the philippines has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in southeast asia every day about 500 teenage girls become mothers and like marilyn a growing number get pregnant more than once before they turn 20 for many this means they have to drop out of school and struggle to make ends meet. the philippines is a predominantly catholic country the teachings of the catholic church greatly influence public health policies premarital sex and birth control are discouraged while abortion is illegal. sex education and information about birth control are very limited many young women feel guilty about using contraception or believe it's only for married couples but when i got pregnant again that's when i realized you
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can use condoms pills i.u.d. to avoid getting pregnant too late regret always comes in the end the philippine government has declared teen pregnancy a public health emergency officials are now trying to find ways to prevent more teenage girls from getting pregnant clinics like this one for instance offer medical checkups and counseling especially for pregnant teens and young women like marilyn here they can bond with other teen moms while waiting to see a doctor. these places can only act in a very limited scope if they only have access to the women. do they get pregnant and they face he go barriers. that a method for family planning is not taught to american women there's a national law that prohibits family planning services for teens without parental consent so abstinence is still the focus. for women like marilyn this advice comes too late but they hope that learning about birth control will empower them so that
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young mothers can really plan their families and avoid yet another unwanted pregnancy that report on a santos who joins me now from manila ana this has been going on in the country for a very long time but why are we seeing an increase in teenage pregnancies now. so there's about $200000.00 teenage girls that get pregnant every year and that number hasn't budged or hasn't decreased over the last decade despite multiple interventions to try and bring that number down what we're also seeing now in fact are emerging numbers of multiple teen pregnancies this is where girls have 2 or 3 children before they hit the age of 20 so clearly not enough is being done to address the teen pregnancy problem and this is why the government has called teen pregnancy a national emergency public health emergency now this is the commission for population and development that calls it a national emergency what has the president of the country president. said does he
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agree. president of jared's is a strong advocate of family planning and he's shown that he's very much willing to government resources behind teen pregnancy prevention intervention and in fact a few months ago he called for teen pregnancy summit he got together the government and the private institutions to combine resources and think of ways that they could work together to address teen pregnancy so it's clear everyone agrees children should not be having children but where the philippians a very catholic and conservative country cannot agree is how to prevent teen pregnancy the law prevents minors from accessing condoms and other birth control methods without parental consent sex education isn't taught in schools and if it is taught in. it's mostly abstinence only messages and we all know there is numerous that it sticks and studies out that tell us that you know condoms work better than
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telling kids to close their legs and pray to prevent an unwanted this time pregnancy i want to follow up on sex education what are the laws about that so for example if a school teacher wanted to teach children about reproduction and sex education would they be able to or are there a laws that prevent them from saying certain things actually the law states that a comprehensive sex education program should be rolled out in all of the schools however that hasn't been done yet so it is not at all illegal for a teacher to be talking about sex in schools but without a standardized sex education program sanctioned by the department of education will have personal and religious biases 'd coming in and sometimes you'll have a teacher who doesn't know enough about sex talking about how to prevent teen pregnancy you'll have a case of the blind leading the blind and that's why it's very important to have a standardized set comprehensive sex ed curriculum we have to depart from the
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messages of abstinence only and go to the science which tells us that you know. better than telling prayer when it comes to preventing unwanted pregnancies i'm a scientist thank you that's all for now remember there's more on our website www dot com for asia thank you for watching see you next time and good bye. and you do need to keep it there you go to the people for all of the rich at home the fortune. of those missing a good look in the lives of at least the bonuses and the dragons which were. really good. welcome to the euro max channel. another good line of story.
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